Bank of India opens first-ever branch in Ladakh
Leh: Bank of India on Friday extended its operations to the Union Territory of Ladakh by opening its first-ever branch here with its top official asserting that the bank is fully committed to extending its banking services to the people living in far-flung areas of the country. This was the 5,086th branch opened by a […]
PaK refugees observe October 22 as ‘black day’ in Jammu
Jammu: Pakistan administered Kashmir (PaK) refugees on Friday observed October 22 as a “black day” here and paid tributes to members of Hindu and Sikh communities who were killed during the Pakistani invasion of Jammu and Kashmir in 1947. The community members said at least one-third of the 24 vacant seats reserved in the Jammu […]
Police arrests three drug peddlers
Srinagar: Police have arrested three drug peddlers in Awantipora and Kulgam and recovered contraband substances from their possession, a police spokesman said Friday. He said that a police party in Awantipora established a check point at Literabal Pampore and intercepted two persons riding a scooty bearing registration number JK13F-1366. They duo were identified as Javaid […]
VC inaugurates special social service camp at Hazratbal
Srinagar: Vice-Chancellor University of Kashmir Prof Talat Ahmad on Friday inaugurated a special social service camp at Dargah Hazratbal. The day-long camp was organised by the Department of Students Welfare (DSW) to serve refreshment to devotees visiting the Hazratbal shrine on the revered occasion of Friday-following Milad-un-Nabi (SAW). Prof Talat, who led top varsity officers […]
CWSR organises awareness camp on breast cancer
Srinagar: The Centre for Women’s Studies and Research (CWSR) University of Kashmir organised an awareness camp on ‘Breast Cancer and Reproductive Health of Women’ at Wangidar village in Pahalgam. The day-long camp was organised as part of a series of such programmes already organised under CWSR’s community-based outreach programme under the aegis of a Rashtriya […]
Dead body of non-local recovered in Anantnag, police rules out militant hand
Srinagar: A dead body of an ‘unsound person’, apparently a non-local, was found at Shamshan Gath Bilal Colony area of Janglatmandi on Friday. While police have taken the body into custody, death due to the bullet(s) was unlikely given the nature of the wound, officials said. “Although there is some wound in the head, it […]
House, four shops gutted in Uttersoo Anantnag
Anantnag: A residential house and four shops were gutted in a fire at Krad area of Uttersoo in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district, officials said on Friday. An official said that a massive fire broke out during the midnight in the shops/house of one Ghulam Nabi Itoo son Mohammad Akbar Itoo at Krad Uttersoo Anantnag. Later […]
Woman among three killed in Anantnag, Doda mishaps
Anantnag/Jammu: Three persons including a woman were killed in two separate road accidents in Anantnag and Doda district, reports and officials said on Friday. Reports said that one Haseena Banoo Wife (52) of Mohammad Yousuf Gareeb, a resident of FM Gali KP Road Anantnag, was hit and injured by the speeding truck bearing registration number […]
Weather Advisory: Gurez-Bandipora road to remain closed till further orders
Srinagar: In wake of the weather advisory, the authorities in Bandipora district have decided to close the 84-km-long Bandipora-Gurez road for the vehicular movement from Friday afternoon. An order issued by Sub Divisional Magistrate Gurez, reads that in view of weather advisory issued by Meteorological department, the traffic on Dawar-Bandipora Dawar-Tulail road shall remain suspended […]
DDC reviews progress of ongoing work projects in Anantnag
ANANTNAG: District Development Commissioner (DDC) Anantnag, Dr Piyush Singla Friday chaired a review meeting of all major departments, here to review the pace/ progress of various ongoing projects by various departments. The DDC directed all the departments to expedite execution of pending works before winter and complete all ongoing works within set timeframe. He laid […]